The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Topics: Death Quotes

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices...

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle...

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle...

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange...

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange...

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound...

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound...

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force....

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force....

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men...

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men...

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of...

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of...

We lost because we told ourselves we lost

We lost because we told ourselves we lost

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case...

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case...